CEO, Bionic + Growth Transformation + Innovation Keynote Speaker

Bionic installs a proprietary solution designed to unlock new growth and competitiveness for the world's largest enterprises, based on the models, methods, talent, and tools of venture capital and entrepreneurship.



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Adam Grant's "19 New Leadership Books to Read in 2019""Once a big company makes the decision to grow, it has to learn how. New to Big presents a unique roadmap for big companies looking to spark powerful growth engines from within." –Clayton Christensen, Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School and bestselling author of The Innovator’s Dilemma and How Will You Measure Your Life? “Big companies are normally where creativity goes to die. But David Kidder has spent his impressive career proving that it doesn’t have to be that way. This is the long-awaited playbook for figuring out how to turn your bureaucracy into an innovation machine. Whether you’re down in the trenches or up in the C-suite, it’s full of smart ideas that are immediately actionable and immensely useful.”–Adam Grant, bestselling author of Originals and Give and TakeMost established companies face a key survival challenge, says David Kidder, CEO of Bionic, lifelong entrepreneur, and angel investor in more than thirty startups: operational efficiency and outdated bureaucracy are at war with new growth. Legacy companies are skilled at growing big businesses into even bigger ones. But they are less adept at discovering new opportunities and turning them into big businesses, the way entrepreneurs and early-stage investors must. In New to Big, Kidder and Wallace reveal their proprietary blueprint for installing a permanent growth capability inside any company--the Growth Operating System.The Growth OS borrows the best tools, systems, and mind-sets from entrepreneurship and venture capital and adapts them for established organizations, leveraging these two distinct skills as a form of management for building in a future that is uncertain. By focusing on what consumers do rather than what they say, celebrating productive failure, embracing a portfolio approach, and learning from the outside-in, Kidder and Wallace argue any company can go on offense and win the future.

    
      
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Renowned pioneers and authorities on enterprise Growth Mindset and Culture, our keynotes are known to energize any room, challenge your mindset and thinking with a provactive brand of radical candor, and ultimately spark new competitiveness and desire to go on innovation offense. Because most enterprises are dominated by the "Big to Bigger" focus on re-risking and efficiency, New to Big organizations that adopt growth mindsets and systems are building resilient growth cultures prepared for the future. www.davidskidder.com

    
      
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Alt Option Return is an early stage investment fund founded by David S. Kidder and Martin L. Schoffstall. It is primarily focused on seed stage investing in companies in New York.Alt Option Return investments include: Art.sy, TapAd, MileWise (acquired by Yahoo), PayOff, HowAboutWe, BoostCTR, Maxwell Health, Content.ly, PopExpert, Lenndo, and Founders Fund III. Read more: http://crunchbase.com/company/alt-option-return#ixzz2YS32nr6E

    
      
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The Startup Playbook (Published by Chronicle Books, January 2013) highlights 40 entrepreneurs and their individual “Playbooks” for building startup companies. Basically, a very raw and gritty overview of the beliefs and actions that have led these entrepreneurs to their outstanding success. The book profiles include the founders of SpaceX, Tesla (Elon Musk), Spanx (Sara Blakley), 800 Flowers (McCann), HonestTea (Goldman), Zappos (Tony Hsieh), LinkedIn (Reid Hoffman), Zip Car (Robin Chase), Flickr (Caterina Fake), The Motley Fool (Tom Gardner), Ben Horowitz (OpsWare), Steve Case (AOL), Steve Blank (Epiphany), Hosain Rahman (Jawbone), Chris Anderson (TED), Rodney Brooks (iRobot), Kevin Ryan (DoubleClick/Alley Corp), Jay Walker (Priceline), The Diamants (SkipHop), Scott Heifferman (Meetup), Marc Ecko (Ecko), Matt Blumberg (ReturnPath), Chris Dixon (Hunch), and many many others. The content and wisdom is profoundly raw.

    
      
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A three time New York Times Best-Selling (5 books, Printed in 18+ Languages, National and International Best Seller) series published by Rodale. The Intellectual Devotional books have been thousands of Americans’ daily guides to stimulating new learning about dozens of subjects. Daily devotionals have long been a favored tool of those looking for a regular dose of spiritual growth. The Intellectual DevotionalL is a secular compendium in the same tradition—one year’s worth of daily readings that refresh the spirit, stimulate the mind, and help people complete their education. Each of the five books in The Intellectual Devotional series provides 365 daily doses of secular knowledge from seven fields of study, each for a day of the week. (Editions: General Edition, American History, Modern Culture, Biographies, Health)

    
      
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Co-Founded in January 2007, Clickable was an all-in-one solution for online advertising. In one elegant experience, Clickable’s grew to 180+ dedicated team members who goals was to increase online investment performance by connecting and optimizing digital channels with the social graph. With Clickable’s patented and award-winning Pro advertising tool and dedicated search and social advertising experts, marketers radically reduced the time and complexity of managing multiple ad formats and networks, such as Google, Bing, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and more. Clickable was acquired by Syncapse in June 2012.

    
      
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Co-Founder of Renaissance Integrated Solutions,  a municipal digital infrastructure solutions company.


Co-founded wireless content delivery pioneer, SmartRay Network, Inc.   Built in partnership with TIBCO, the solution utilized proprietary alerting agent and data-feed management technology to deliver real-time personalized mobile content.  SmartRay was acquired by LifeMinders in August 2000.


Led corporate development at THINK New Ideas, a publicly traded e-business solutions company. Supported the evaluation, acquisition and rapid integration of seven companies, helping grow the company from <100 to >500 employees in <36 months



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Co-Founded Net-X, a web-authoring software and development services company, serving clients such as Xerox, Bausch & Lomb, Ray Ban and Young & Rubicam.  Net-X was acquired by Target Vision in March 1996.


Rochester Institute of Technology is internationally recognized for academic leadership and is home to 18,000 full- and part-time students in more than 200 career-oriented and professional programs. The university is consistently recognized by The Chronicle of Higher Education on the publication's list of "Great Colleges to Work For."​ 

Founded in 1829, RIT is a privately endowed, coeducational university with nine colleges and institutes emphasizing career education and experiential learning. Talented, ambitious, and creative students of all cultures and backgrounds from all 50 states and more than 100 countries have chosen to attend the university and with approximately 15,000 undergraduates and 2,900 graduate students, it is one of the largest private universities in the nation.

RIT offers a rich array of degree programs in engineering, science, business, and the arts, and is home to the National Technical Institute for the Deaf. Committed to the needs of dual career couples, it is a member of Upstate NY HERC.

Rochester ranks 3rd best metropolitan regions for Raising a Family"​ by Forbes Magazine; 6th among 379 metropolitan areas as "Best Places to Live in America"​ by Places Rated Almanac; 1st in Expansion Management Magazine's ranking of metropolitan areas having the best "Quality of Life in the Nation"​; and is among Essence Magazine's "Top 10 Cities for Black Families."​

Mission
Through a unique blend of curricular, experiential, and research programs delivered within a student-centric culture, Rochester Institute of Technology prepares its students for successful careers in a global society.

Vision
RIT will be a great world university whose academic portfolio, research agenda, and educational model align with the shifting needs of a complex planet.

Jobs at RIT: external candidates applying for faculty and staff positions need to apply for positions online at http://careers.rit.edu.

Co-Founder and CEO at Bionic

Bionic

Co-Founder and CEO

New to Big (Currency)

Co-Author

Alt Option Shift

Growth Mindset + Innovation Keynote Speaker

Alt Option Return

Managing Partner

The Startup Playbook

Author

The Intellectual Devotional Book Series

Creator and Co-Author

Smithsonian Institution

National Board Member

Clickable

Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer

Renaissance Integrated Solutions, Inc.

Co-Founder

SmartRay Network, Inc.

Co-Founder

THINK New Ideas

Vice President, Strategic Operations

Net-X

Co-Founder

Rochester Institute of Technology

Industrial Design

BA

Guilderland Central High School